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UNITED STATES PATENT Orricn.

PETER POOLEY, OFl CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

REVOLVlNG BROILER.

SPECFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 694,889, dated March 4,1902. Application led April 5, 1901. Serial llo'. 54.560. (-No model.)

To @ZZ wir/omit may concern:

Be it known that I, PETER POOLEY, a citizen of the United States,residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Revolving Broilers, ofwhich the following is a specioation.

This invention relates to broilers for vegetables and meats; and Vitsprincipal objects are to provide a device for this purpose that willenable the article being broiled to be couveniently and readily revolvedover the fire;-.

that will economize theY heating area by enabling a plurality ofarticles to be broiled in close proximity and all rotated in unison byconvenient means. I

Other objects will he more fully pointed out hereinafter.

It consists in combining with a suitable iirebox and its surroundingcasing and appurtenances suitable means for supporting the articles tobe cooked and means for revolving all of the articles by turning oneshaft and such other details and features as will be describedhereinafter and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which--Figure 1 is a front elevation of a device embodying this invention. Fig.2 is a plan view of the same. Fig. is a side elevation. Fig. 4 is adetail showing hollow spindle. is a detail of spindle with shank forturningcrank. Fig. 6 is a view showing holder. Fig. 7 is a View showingremovable cover for re-box. Fig. S. is a View of handle for removingre-boxes. Fig. 9 isa sectional elevation taken at the right of shaft kinFig. 2 and looking in 'the direction of said shaft,

A is a casing or body of a stove having the removable ireboxes u, a.mounted in the Beneath the fire-boxes are slanting stationary slides a20.3, upon which the ashes fall and pass into a removable drawer B. Ateither side of the stove and immediately below the fire-boxes areopenings c c', covered by slides C C', which furnish easy access tostart the fire and enables a pusher to be introduced to shove the ashesinto the drawer in case they do not pass readily down. The front andside portions of the casing form convenient storage-room for the fueland cooking utensils and is rendered accessible by doors D.

A row of apertures e at the front of the cas- Fig. 5

ing furnishes means for the ingress of air and may be closed orregulated bya slide E. The air thus admitted to the casing passes upwardthrough holes e2 in the top plate, thus furnishing a draft to carry awaythe heat and odor. Doors a4 in the top plate may be turned up, as shownin Fig. 3, to protect the operator. A hood G over thevstove may beconnected with a chimney (notshown) by a pipe g. The lower part g of theback plate of the hood G is hinged to allow access to the broiler fromthe rear.

The broiler apparatus comprises an upright plate H, in which aresupported the spits .7i and gridiron-supports it. These have Shanksextending baci: through their bearings in the plate H to engage withintermeshing gearwheels t'. One of these shanks,'as shown in Fig. 5, isstill further extended to engage with a cranky', by means of which thewhole system is turned. The plate H is hinged to the top plate of thestove to allow the spits and gridirons to be turned up and away from thelire, as in Fig. 3. In case it is desired to operate the mechanism fromthe front a crankshaft k is passed through bearing-posts-lc and engagesone of the gridiron-supports h.

A hollow spit h2 is adapted for use in case a large portion of meat orafowl is to be broiled. The spit canbe inserted in the article to hehroiled and then slipped inposition on one of the supports h'. Thesespits are preferably made of square tubing to engage the square supportsIt and are provided with sharpened points, as shown in Fig. 4. Gridironsor toasters L, (shown in Figs. 6 and 9,) provided with the usual wirecover, adapted to be held in a closed position by a hook when the breador meat has been inserted, are mounted on hollow square shafts adaptedto engage the supports h. These gridirons may be slipped into positionon the supports or removed therefrom while they are turning over thefire, and

in order to do so readily they-are provided lgreatly economized, therebyreducing the amount of grate-surface needed, and consequently the fuel.

In operation the lire is started, with a cover IOC) m (shown in Fig. 7)over the fire-box, and as soon as the fuel, which is preferablycharcoal, is burning sufliciently the cover removed and the vegetablesor meats placed in position and turned bythe Crank, as shown. If ihecooking is completed before the fire is outor itis desired to remove thefire, a pronged lifter n, Fig. 8, is adapted to engage with theendplates of the lire-boxes and furnish means for removing,r them.K

Various modifications may be made in the application of my invention,and I do not limit myself to the exact construction or detail shown; but

NVhat I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. The combination of a casing provided with a draft-inlet in the frontthereof and with outlets vin its top plate, fire-boxes mount'

